Ingenious Machinists: Two Inventive Lives from the American Industrial Revolution

Uses the stories of two inventors who took different paths to examine the early industrial revolution in New York and New England.

Ingenious Machinists recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in nineteenth-century America. Paul Moody chose a secure path as a corporate engineer i...